A New Orleans couple was recently arrested on felony insurancefraud warrants by Louisiana's State Police Insurance FraudUnit.
|Russell and Elaine Lane are believed to have intentionallyattempted to defraud their insurer by claiming Hurricane Katrinacaused damage to their roof. An investigation by police, however,showed that the couple purposely created damage to their roof inorder to activate the mold endorsement of their homeowners'insurance policy. The case was helped by the use of satelliteimagery to verify the lack of or presence of damage in the daysthat immediately followed Katrina's landfall. These images wereused to compare actual damage seen during inspections completed byinsurance adjusters and allowed investigators to determine thedifference between damage caused by a storm and man-madedamage.
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